Job’s friends totally misrepresented
God to Job in his time of greatest
need. They were false in their logic
and in their conclusions. They believed
that man must do things in order
to win the favor of God and therefore
suffering is a sign of God’s displeasure.
Yet these false friends did not realize
know, or seek to know that there is
always a place for innocent suffering
that has absolutely nothing to do
with sin or wrongdoing of any kind.
Such a heinous doctrine this is in that
they horrendously misrepresented God
in a challenging, painful, inconceivable
trial sent to Job from an all-loving, Holy,
omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God.
When Job needed His friends the
most they ganged up on Him and
increased His suffering and woe
through unjust, unfair, anti-Biblical
humiliation. In a seemingly increasing
“end-time living” world of friends like Job
had, may we never be like the friends of
Job who increased Job’s suffering and woe
by not knowing, studying, putting into
practice the true picture of God’s tender
merciful, lavish, never-ceasing love and care!
And instead of truly understanding
the totality of Job’s precious life and
all that He was going through by the
willingness to walk in His pain, they became
demonic arrows in the hands of Satan
that destroyed, debilitated, and indeed
became a voice of deception. Instead
of lifting up, encouraging, and giving
hope, joy, and comfort they mistakenly
gave reproof, unfair judgment, correction,
and doctrinal error to a precious soul who
was in perpetual grief. May we, as true
courageous, victorious, triumphant followers
of Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of
Lords, who is tender and merciful in all His
ways, never, ever, no ever, no never be
like the wound creating friends of Job.
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